Central banks are not supposed to be political. Here, they were overtly political. It just goes to show, as Walter Bagehot pointed out 150 years that central banks are inherently conflicted in their mandate.…...

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Watching how BlueSky seems to be taking off, and yes, it will likely run into the same issue as Twitter, I am seeing #nostr not as a direct competitor but rather as an independent publishing and payment protocol. The ability to create and receive payments without permission is nostr’s…...

They don’t build’em like they used to.…...

Self-signed pubkeys and bearer tokens are the way of the future.…...